Video: Teach Kids Programming with iOS: Welcome

Hi, my name is Todd Perkins. Welcome to Teach Kids Programming with iOS. This course is somewhat unique on lynda.com. In that it's designed to teach teachers. While most courses are for students. This course guides you through the process of teaching a kid to program using objective C and SCO. Each chapter follows a particular structure. Each starts with a guide for the teacher, meant to be watched without the student.

Programming is a great way to teach a child problem-solving skills and introduce them to the inner workings of technology. And iOS highlights the usefulness of programming via the immediacy of the iPhone and iPad. In this course, Todd Perkins helps parents, mentors, and educators who are experienced with Objective-C and Xcode pass their coding skills on to a student. Each inquiry-oriented chapter consists of seven parts:

Teacher's Guide: Introduces the concepts in the chapter and preps the adult on places where the student might get stuck

Check It Out: Encourages the adult and student to engage with and edit some existing code

The Facts: A lecture for the student to watch

Extend It: An exploration of expanded and extended concepts

Challenge: A hands-on coding challenge for the student

Solution: A step-by-step solution presented by the author

This course is designed to help you, an expert, help a beginner learn about the code, logic, and interface elements that lie behind iOS apps and games. The structured curriculum supports those who have a solid understanding of the iOS SDK, but don't necessarily know how to teach it effectively to kids.

Welcome

Hi, my name is Todd Perkins.Welcome to Teach Kids Programming with iOS.This course is somewhat unique on lynda.com.In that it's designed to teach teachers.While most courses are for students.This course guides you through the process of teachinga kid to program using objective C and SCO.Each chapter follows a particular structure.Each starts with a guide for the teacher,meant to be watched without the student.

Those movies include an overview of the concepts taught throughout thechapter, and move much faster than the rest of the movies.The second movie, shows the application that we'llbe working on through most of the chapter.The third movie encourages you and your student to break thecode by experimenting with different values for variables and the like.The fourth movie explains how the code works.In the fifth movie,I will elaborate a little bit and explain howto extend what we've done to accomplish additional tasks.Finally, the last two movies in eachchapter are a challenge and a solution, respectively.

These enable the student to test the skillslearned through the chapter to solve a specific problem.By the end of the course, your student will have seen a brief overview ofthe Objective-C language, and some examples ofhow code can be used to solve problems.

Learn by watching, listening, and doing, Exercise files are the same files the author uses in the course, so you can download them and follow along Premium memberships include access to all exercise files in the library.

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Learn by watching, listening, and doing! Exercise files are the same files the author uses in the course, so you can download them and follow along. Exercise files are available with all Premium memberships.
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